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RUSSIA'S TRADE with the West will pick up. Under British pressure, 15 nations (including the U.S.) have agreed to lift export controls on crude and diesel oils, light machine tools, farm tractors, copper wire, air conditioners, mica, tungsten, some 150 other products. Still under embargo: 170 strategic items, including weapons, uranium and airplanes...
Climax' miners, who must tunnel through Colorado's Bartlett Mountain for the ore, call it "molly bedamned," and until World War I no one had much use for the metal. The Germans, then short of tungsten, first used it to harden the barrels of their Big Berthas. It was used on a large scale again in World War II. In peacetime, however, most steelmakers preferred tungsten; molybdenum production usually dropped off to a trickle...
Another reason for boosting stockpiles is that the Administration is being forced to buy up more stocks of copper, lead, zinc, tin, magnesium, tungsten and other metals than it had planned. While the fighting was on in Korea, the Truman Administration encouraged expansion of domestic mineral and metal products beyond normal needs by guaranteeing a market for much of the extra output. The guarantees served their purpose. But when demand slacked off and prices fell, the Administration had to buy up the surplus. It either had to raise stockpile limits or dump excess metals on a shaky market...
...Kremlin, of course, is the subcontinent of India [and] Pakistan . . . Now let us assume that we lose Indo-China. If IndoChina goes, several things happen right away. The [Malay] Peninsula, the last little bit of land hanging on down there [see map^. would be scarcely defensible. The tin and tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming, and all India would be outflanked. Burma would be in no position for defense...
...Electronic Drill. A new die sinking and drilling machine, which uses one of the softest metals (copper) as the cutting tool for some of the hardest (tungsten and titanium carbide), is being built by the Elox Corp., Clawson, Mich. The copper, acting as an electrode, can drill a hole one-tenth of an inch in diameter through 40 inches of steel. Expected price...